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10-31-2008, 12:44 AM
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A Tale of Two Cities Hello Freedomphiles!
A Tale of Two Cities
by RS Davis The Freedom Files  Hello Freedomphiles! Check out my new Nolan Chart exclusive, about two different cities with two different approaches to drug policy. Excerpt: If you define success as throwing away good money on an effort that has absolutely no positive benefits and actually reinforces the behavior you are trying to discourage, then the ONDCP's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign has been an amazing success. They've spent nearly a billion dollars on this program between 1999 and 2004, churning out increasingly absurd ads - from one claiming that buying a dime bag to supplement your Grand Theft Auto addiction would lead to planes crashing into skyscrapers to one claiming children were in mortal danger from stoners on munchie runs at the drive thru - aimed at reducing teen drug use. The problem is, according to a study commissioned by the very same government that produced the ads, which will be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health, "The evidence does not support a claim that the campaign produced anti-marijuana effects...Despite extensive funding, governmental agency support, the employment of professional advertising and public relations firms, and consultation with subject-matter experts, the evidence from the evaluation suggests that the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign had no favorable effects on youths' behavior..." What's more - and here's the kicker - "it may even have had an unintended and undesirable effect on drug cognitions and use." Click here to read the rest, and don't forget to click the thumbs-up icon at the top!
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 Libertarians: Trying to get people to mind their own business since 1971. The Freedom Files 
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